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Meet the former chief of Naval staff whose land is at the center of controversy with the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike

Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, is retired Nigerian Navy Vice Admiral who served as the Chief of Naval Staff of Nigeria from January 2021 to June 2023.

Born on April 22, 1966, in Kano State, Nigeria, he enlisted in the Nigerian Navy in 1984 and specialized in Underwater Warfare with a subspecialization in Intelligence.

He holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Transport Management from Ladoke Akintola University.

Vice Admiral Gambo has held numerous key appointments throughout his career, including Director of Procurement at the Defence Space Administration and Commander/Commandant of the Directorate of Naval Intelligence Annex and the Nigerian Navy Intelligence School.

During his tenure as Chief of Naval Staff, he achieved significant milestones such as reducing piracy incidents in the Gulf of Guinea.

He is also a member and fellow of various professional bodies related to management, safety, shipping, and diplomacy.

He has earned several awards and honors, including the ECOMOG Peacekeeping Medal and Admiralty Medal

FCT Minister Nyesom Wike accused him of land grabbing and illegal construction.

The former naval chief will win the battle in the court of justice. Wike goof here

Wike should be allowed to do his work without unnecessary distractions.

Those who are interested in the land grabbed issue should take it to court.

Na court go eventually decide who get the land.

Salewa97:
Wike should be allowed to do his work without unnecessary distractions.

Those who are interested in the land grabbed issue should take it to court.

Na court go eventually decide who get the land.

And who get the courts in Nigeria?

press9jatv:
The former naval chief will win the battle in the court of justice. Wike goof here

If we were to judge the matter by law and legality, Wike will win.

But this matter is complicated.

Vice Admiral AZ Gambo is senior to the current CDS, General Oluyode, and by that, the CDS cannot go against his orders. This is simple military tradition and precedence.

The only person that can give a counter order to the orders of Vice Admiral Gambo is the Commander-In-Chief, Tinubu, but even Tinubu must be careful because there’s a way he’d handle the matter in favour of the law (Wike) and he would anger the rank and file of the military establishment which will not be good at all.

Remember he just survived a coup.

There’s a reason people like AZ Gambo are left alone to do their thing as far as their actions are not very much against the law or threat to public peace and order.

How much does Wike and FCT ministry want to generate from the General registering for his development levy. It’s a totally unnecessary fracas.

I won’t be surprised if Wike is sacked because of this.

press9jatv:
The former naval chief will win the battle in the court of justice. Wike goof here

Smh.

It's obvious that you have not had case in court before or got involved in land matters litigation.

That is bad PR to the retired officer. He could actually land in bigger problems ,even arrested and prosecuted.

The Minister represents the President. If he takes on the Minister then he is taking on the President and that's bad for him.

Interestingly, the retired officer wouldn't send his own son on such errand and when he was a young officer, he wasn't having a shouting match publicly with constituted authorities or behaving the way the young officer behaved to the Minister. If he was behaving like that he would not get to the pinnacle of his career.

FG will investigate the appropriateness or otherwise of a serving or retired senior military officer to give order to a junior officer to restrain a Minister on his lawful duty from performing his duty.
That will be visited to ensure that such disgraceful scene never happens again.

That Junior Officer should have known the limits of his discretion and just kept quiet after saying he was obeying order which has now turned out to be an order given by a retired military officer.

So if tomorrow, retired or serving officers tell him to slap a government official, he will do it niyen.

It was the President he was challenging by placing the 'order ' above the authority of the president delegated to the Minister.

Whatever incentive he got or was promised by the retired Senior Officer for him to behave in that manner must be investigated too. Haba!

It is completely unacceptable that the Minister was prevented from performing his lawful duty by a junior officer acting on the order of a retired military officer. Everyone including the junior officer and the retired Senior naval officer should by now have been rounded up and quizzed if it's not already done.

That video is a very sad event that embarrasses the President and the nation.

Wike should be careful....i watched the video...what if there' was accidental discharge from those guns and wike or anybody was hit?...
In all, alow wike to do is job...honestly he is trying seriously 😐

The Navy Officer that stopped Wike from entering, here is his dad

The guy nah General pickin
No wonder he is fearless officer 💪💪💪

press9jatv:
The Navy Officer that stopped Wike from entering, here is his dad

The guy nah General pickin
No wonder he is fearless officer 💪💪💪

If this is true then that's what probably got into his head. Smh.

Please let us leave out his Dad out for now. The old man served and should be accorded his respect.

I am not sure his Dad or any Dad will be really happy to watch his son have a shouting match with a representative of the President.

I will not be surprised if his Dad is already reaching out to people to intervene. His father may not like the fact that it was even his own son the retired Senior Officer sent on such non-core military task that doesn't count for promotion.

That's not fame but notoriety that can lead to his being dismissed from the armed forces or posted to one obscure place where he will prefer to quit than to take such posting. If he's in Sambisa or our embassy in Polynesia, will he have time for land matters? No nah.

Penguin2:
If we were to judge the matter by law and legality, Wike will win.

But this matter is complicated.

Vice Admiral AZ Gambo is senior to the current CDS, General Oluyode, and by that, the CDS cannot go against his orders. This is simple military tradition and precedence.

The only person that can give a counter order to the orders of Vice Admiral Gambo is the Commander-In-Chief, Tinubu, but even Tinubu must be careful because there’s a way he’d handle the matter in favour of the law (Wike) and he would anger the rank and file of the military establishment which will not be good at all.

Remember he just survived a coup.

There’s a reason people like AZ Gambo are left alone to do their thing as far as their actions are not very much against the law or threat to public peace and order.

How much does Wike and FCT ministry want to generate from the General registering for his development levy. It’s a totally unnecessary fracas.

I won’t be surprised if Wike is sacked because of this.

A retired military officer doesn't have any authority to issue directive to serving military personnel.

No land grabbing or illegal construction should be tolerated.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

It's obvious that you have not had case in court before or got involved in land matters litigation.

That is bad PR to the retired officer. He could actually land in bigger problems ,even arrested and prosecuted.

The Minister represents the President. If he takes on the Minister then he is taking on the President and that's bad for him.

Interestingly, the retired officer wouldn't send his own son on such errand and when he was a young officer, he wasn't having a shouting match publicly with constituted authorities or behaving the way the young officer behaved to the Minister. If he was behaving like that he would not get to the pinnacle of his career.

FG will investigate the appropriateness of a serving or retired senior military officer to give order to a junior officer to restrain a Minister on his lawful duty from performing his duty.
That will be visited to ensure that such disgraceful scene never happens again.

That Junior Officer should have known the limits of his discretion and just kept quiet after saying he was obeying order which has now turned out to be an order given by a retired military officer.

So if tomorrow, retired or serving officers tell him to slap a government official, he will do it niyen.

It was the President he was challenging by placing the 'order ' above the authority of the president delegated to the Minister.

Whatever incentive he got or was promised by the retired Senior Officer for him to behave in that manner must be investigated too. Haba!

It is completely unacceptable that the Minister was prevented from performing his lawful duty by a junior officer acting on the order of a retired military officer. Everyone including the junior officer and the naval officer should by now have been rounded up and quizzed if it's not already done.

That video is a very sad event that embarrasses the President and the nation.

You and I know that Tinubu lacks the guts to arrest and prosecute a retired CNS, not now that he's licking the asses of the northern elite for 2027 plus that he should be walking on egg shells with the rumoured coup. He isn't Obj nor PMB that arrested generals and got away with it. Arrest and prosecute him on what grounds sef? Did he invite the drunken master to his property? For the young officer, he's shown great composure and comportment even when faced with the worst possible stench of booze halitosis he'd encounter in his life, and will earn great commendation from his superiors.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

It's obvious that you have not had case in court before or got involved in land matters litigation.

That is bad PR to the retired officer. He could actually land in bigger problems ,even arrested and prosecuted.

The Minister represents the President. If he takes on the Minister then he is taking on the President and that's bad for him.

Interestingly, the retired officer wouldn't send his own son on such errand and when he was a young officer, he wasn't having a shouting match publicly with constituted authorities or behaving the way the young officer behaved to the Minister. If he was behaving like that he would not get to the pinnacle of his career.

FG will investigate the appropriateness of a serving or retired senior military officer to give order to a junior officer to restrain a Minister on his lawful duty from performing his duty.
That will be visited to ensure that such disgraceful scene never happens again.

That Junior Officer should have known the limits of his discretion and just kept quiet after saying he was obeying order which has now turned out to be an order given by a retired military officer.

So if tomorrow, retired or serving officers tell him to slap a government official, he will do it niyen.

It was the President he was challenging by placing the 'order ' above the authority of the president delegated to the Minister.

Whatever incentive he got or was promised by the retired Senior Officer for him to behave in that manner must be investigated too. Haba!

It is completely unacceptable that the Minister was prevented from performing his lawful duty by a junior officer acting on the order of a retired military officer. Everyone including the junior officer and the naval officer should by now have been rounded up and quizzed if it's not already done.

That video is a very sad event that embarrasses the President and the nation.

That is how they use to do

Insubordination when it comes to Southern leaders is in their blood, DNA.

In their mind na them get Nigeria, they don't rate Wike at all.

See what they did to GEJ. (In their mind why must he be the one on the seat, or making that beneficial policy, they never see anything good.)

The road he's constructing all over FCT, to them is useless. They don't regard those achievements at all. Walahi if I was Wike, I no go stress myself for people wey no go regard him at all even if he turn FCT to eldorado.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

It's obvious that you have not had case in court before or got involved in land matters litigation.

That is bad PR to the retired officer. He could actually land in bigger problems ,even arrested and prosecuted.

The Minister represents the President. If he takes on the Minister then he is taking on the President and that's bad for him.

Interestingly, the retired officer wouldn't send his own son on such errand and when he was a young officer, he wasn't having a shouting match publicly with constituted authorities or behaving the way the young officer behaved to the Minister. If he was behaving like that he would not get to the pinnacle of his career.

FG will investigate the appropriateness of a serving or retired senior military officer to give order to a junior officer to restrain a Minister on his lawful duty from performing his duty.
That will be visited to ensure that such disgraceful scene never happens again.

That Junior Officer should have known the limits of his discretion and just kept quiet after saying he was obeying order which has now turned out to be an order given by a retired military officer.

So if tomorrow, retired or serving officers tell him to slap a government official, he will do it niyen.

It was the President he was challenging by placing the 'order ' above the authority of the president delegated to the Minister.

Whatever incentive he got or was promised by the retired Senior Officer for him to behave in that manner must be investigated too. Haba!

It is completely unacceptable that the Minister was prevented from performing his lawful duty by a junior officer acting on the order of a retired military officer. Everyone including the junior officer and the naval officer should by now have been rounded up and quizzed if it's not already done.

That video is a very sad event that embarrasses the President and the nation.

your article here never hold any water. Keep Wailing

Svoboda:
You and I know that Tinubu lacks the guts to arrest and prosecute a retired CNS, not now that he's licking the asses of the northern elite for 2027 plus that he should be walking on egg shells with the rumoured coup. He isn't Obj nor PMB that arrested generals and got away with it. Arrest and prosecute him on what grounds sef? Did he invite the drunken master to his property? For the young officer, he's shown great composure and comportment even when faced with the worst possible stench of booze halitosis he'd encounter in his life, and will earn great commendation from his superiors.

best response to him here

Penguin2:
If we were to judge the matter by law and legality, Wike will win.

But this matter is complicated.

Vice Admiral AZ Gambo is senior to the current CDS, General Oluyode, and by that, the CDS cannot go against his orders. This is simple military tradition and precedence.

The only person that can give a counter order to the orders of Vice Admiral Gambo is the Commander-In-Chief, Tinubu, but even Tinubu must be careful because there’s a way he’d handle the matter in favour of the law (Wike) and he would anger the rank and file of the military establishment which will not be good at all.

Remember he just survived a coup.

There’s a reason people like AZ Gambo are left alone to do their thing as far as their actions are not very much against the law or threat to public peace and order.

How much does Wike and FCT ministry want to generate from the General registering for his development levy. It’s a totally unnecessary fracas.

I won’t be surprised if Wike is sacked because of this.

Wike will never win. Stop adding emotions and sentiments to your response here. Wike goofed

Jorussia:
A retired military officer doesn't have any authority to issue directive to serving military personnel.

By law and practice, retired generals have a retinue of serving officers under their command until their death.

FreeStuffsNG:
If this is true then that's what probably got into his head. Smh.

Please let us leave out his Dad out for now. The old man served and should be accorded his respect.

I am not sure his Dad or any Dad will be really happy to watch his son have a shouting match with a representative of the President.

I will not be surprised if his Dad is already reaching out to people to intervene. His father may not like the fact that it was even his own son the retired Senior Officer sent on such non-core military task that doesn't count for promotion.

That's not fame but notoriety that can lead to his being dismissed from the armed forces or posted to one obscure place where he will prefer to quit than to take such posting. If he's in Sambisa or our embassy in Polynesia, will he have time for land matters? No nah.

President ko
Criminal ni
.

No one is above the law, wike should revoke his papers....

I think most people commenting on this land matter are either mischievous or ignorant.I personally don't like some of Wike's public comments or conducts.The FCT minister has said on numerous public occasions,that military personnel usually harass officials of FCT land department whenever they are trying to carry out their lawful duties.

There was even a case in late 2023 when officials of government were beaten up by soldiers in a land illegally encroached on by a retired army general.If u carefully read the news on Sahara reporters yesterday,you will discover the land was never allocated to anybody since 2014.What Sahara reporters made reference to were memos submitted to FCT minister before Wike that were nv approved.

Penguin2:
If we were to judge the matter by law and legality, Wike will win.

But this matter is complicated.

Vice Admiral AZ Gambo is senior to the current CDS, General Oluyode, and by that, the CDS cannot go against his orders. This is simple military tradition and precedence.

The only person that can give a counter order to the orders of Vice Admiral Gambo is the Commander-In-Chief, Tinubu, but even Tinubu must be careful because there’s a way he’d handle the matter in favour of the law (Wike) and he would anger the rank and file of the military establishment which will not be good at all.

Remember he just survived a coup.

There’s a reason people like AZ Gambo are left alone to do their thing as far as their actions are not very much against the law or threat to public peace and order.

How much does Wike and FCT ministry want to generate from the General registering for his development levy. It’s a totally unnecessary fracas.

I won’t be surprised if Wike is sacked because of this.

Many people don't know military traditions honestly.

If you notice wike said he was leaving because the CDS has called him.

CDS wey dey sleep under oga gambo bunk that year

Svoboda:
You and I know that Tinubu lacks the guts to arrest and prosecute a retired CNS, not now that he's licking the asses of the northern elite for 2027 plus that he should be walking on egg shells with the rumoured coup. He isn't Obj nor PMB that arrested generals and got away with it. Arrest and prosecute him on what grounds sef? Did he invite the drunken master to his property? For the young officer, he's shown great composure and comportment even when faced with the worst possible stench of booze halitosis he'd encounter in his life, and will earn great commendation from his superiors.

When you put the poor man in trouble it is you who will be the first to abandon him like Judas Iscariot.

Not even he will be reckless and foolish enough to believe that he can take on the serving naval chief let alone the CDS not to talk of the President.

Small kids all over nairaland.

Svoboda:
Oga, it's like you're a bit ignorant of how the military operates. It's a code of obey before complain, unlike in the police where a rank and file can openly resist his superiors orders and get away with it. That young officer is going to get more than a pat on the back because he obeyed to the later. The order was to resist the ministers access to the property and he carried it out gallantly. You only elect to view the incident from a civil relations perspective, but in the military, emotions form the least of their consideration.

You are the one who don't know sir.
It is not true that an officer must obey all orders. It is not true. An officer in particular knows the rule of engagement and won't act above the law because of any order let alone one from a retired senior officer.

There's a subsisting order that security agencies personnel should not be directly involved in land matters except acting on court order or official duty by government.

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking the law.

arantess:
Truth is even his dad is not a general, you cannot go through academy and not have confidence to talk to any human

That's a Brigadier General. So you don’t even know their ranks sef and you are referring to academy?

There's nothing special in choosing to go to academy. We all have our preferences and choice. Many got into academy and regretted going there because their heart is elsewhere like Cute Abiola who eventually quit the military for acting.
No serious minded person will go to school and will not be able to communicate with confidence on the subject you know o, not on everything so that you will not speak or behave foolishly

press9jatv:
The former naval chief will win the battle in the court of justice. Wike goof here

terribly did and I don't know why many nigerians can't see it . I must say that he even disrespected the office that he occupied .he behaved like a low level political thug or tout. Now trust me the military guys have marked him down . The president and the top military heirachy have to do something to douse the tension among their boys

onatisi:
terribly did and I don't know why many nigerians can't see it . I must say that he even disrespected the office that he occupied .he behaved like a low level political thug or tout. Now trust me the military guys have marked him down . The president and the top military heirachy have to do something to douse the tension among their boys

exactly you are right here.

No land is under controversy. All land in the FCT is owned by the federal government. Wike is just doing the right thing by calling out the land grabbers.

FreeStuffsNG:
When you put the poor man in trouble it is you who will be the first to abandon him like Judas Iscariot.

Not even he will be reckless and foolish enough to believe that he can take on the serving naval chief let alone the CDS not to talk of the President.

Small kids all over nairaland.

Oga, it's like you're a bit ignorant of how the military operates. It's a code of obey before complain, unlike in the police where a rank and file can openly resist his superiors orders and get away with it. That young officer is going to get more than a pat on the back because he obeyed to the later. The order was to resist the ministers access to the property and he carried it out gallantly. You only elect to view the incident from a civil relations perspective, but in the military, emotions form the least of their consideration.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

It's obvious that you have not had case in court before or got involved in land matters litigation.

That is bad PR to the retired officer. He could actually land in bigger problems ,even arrested and prosecuted.

The Minister represents the President. If he takes on the Minister then he is taking on the President and that's bad for him.

Interestingly, the retired officer wouldn't send his own son on such errand and when he was a young officer, he wasn't having a shouting match publicly with constituted authorities or behaving the way the young officer behaved to the Minister. If he was behaving like that he would not get to the pinnacle of his career.

FG will investigate the appropriateness or otherwise of a serving or retired senior military officer to give order to a junior officer to restrain a Minister on his lawful duty from performing his duty.
That will be visited to ensure that such disgraceful scene never happens again.

That Junior Officer should have known the limits of his discretion and just kept quiet after saying he was obeying order which has now turned out to be an order given by a retired military officer.

So if tomorrow, retired or serving officers tell him to slap a government official, he will do it niyen.

It was the President he was challenging by placing the 'order ' above the authority of the president delegated to the Minister.

Whatever incentive he got or was promised by the retired Senior Officer for him to behave in that manner must be investigated too. Haba!

It is completely unacceptable that the Minister was prevented from performing his lawful duty by a junior officer acting on the order of a retired military officer. Everyone including the junior officer and the retired Senior naval officer should by now have been rounded up and quizzed if it's not already done.

That video is a very sad event that embarrasses the President and the nation.

your minister was unministerial that day ,he lacked decorum, was garrulous,disrespected his office and age
Did you not hear the former army chief labelled his conduct as threat to national security
Your courts and commander in chief will bow to the military if they decide to come together to reason their matter, so wisdom is profitable in this matter,wike should go and take lessons in humility, next time he may not be so lucky,that's if he doesn't loose his position with this

press9jatv:
The Navy Officer that stopped Wike from entering, here is his dad

The guy nah General pickin
No wonder he is fearless officer 💪💪💪

Truth is even his dad is not a general, you cannot go through academy and not have confidence to talk to any human

Svoboda:
By law and practice, retired generals have a retinue of serving officers under their command until their death.

Oga don't write what u don't know.The military personnel attached to retired military chiefs are for their personnel protection and not to command.

Penguin2:
If we were to judge the matter by law and legality, Wike will win.

But this matter is complicated.

Vice Admiral AZ Gambo is senior to the current CDS, General Oluyode, and by that, the CDS cannot go against his orders. This is simple military tradition and precedence.

The only person that can give a counter order to the orders of Vice Admiral Gambo is the Commander-In-Chief, Tinubu, but even Tinubu must be careful because there’s a way he’d handle the matter in favour of the law (Wike) and he would anger the rank and file of the military establishment which will not be good at all.

Remember he just survived a coup.

There’s a reason people like AZ Gambo are left alone to do their thing as far as their actions are not very much against the law or threat to public peace and order.

How much does Wike and FCT ministry want to generate from the General registering for his development levy. It’s a totally unnecessary fracas.

I won’t be surprised if Wike is sacked because of this.

So how do we expect the country to grow and be fair if we have people like you defending shenanigans of the law? I observed once Nigerians don’t like you, you can do no good in their eyes, see Jonathan for example. Nigerians may likely not know what they actually wants . I’m tired of talkin…

onatisi:
terribly did and I don't know why many nigerians can't see it . I must say that he even disrespected the office that he occupied .he behaved like a low level political thug or tout. Now trust me the military guys have marked him down . The president and the top military heirachy have to do something to douse the tension among their boys

He has been marked before now.
Just that the something was not a success.

But instead of him to humble himself, no way.

He said the boy wants to intimidated Nigerians

Same wike that killed Nigerians in oyigbo

Jorussia:
Oga don't write what u don't know.The military personnel attached to retired military chiefs are for their personnel protection and to command.

You just agreed to what he said na